I had a normal childhood. There were women, but it wasn't like Hefner's Playboy Mansion. If it was, I'd still be living at home!

Be who you are, not who the world wants you to be.

It was good, it was bad. But it was real, and that's all you have.

I wouldn't change anything. I've made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, I've learned.

If permanent happiness comes with someone, Id leave everything.

We all feel love, and that might sound kind of corny, but I really feel that's what joins musicians together around the world.

I don't like being lied to, so I only lie about the stupid things. White lies, basically.

I'm a good person, but with many defects.

I know it sounds corny, but when you follow your dreams, it happens. And if it's music, take it seriously.

Would you dance, if I asked you to dance? Would you run, and never look back? Would you cry, if you saw me crying? And would you save my soul tonight?

The power of music in Spanish is so strong that I couldn't stay away from it any longer.

... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.

The stronger a woman gets, the more insecure the men in her life feel. It doesn’t work that way for a woman. We celebrate strength--in our partners as well as in ourselves.

I don’t have a body, I am a body.

Feeble and timid minds . . . consider the use of dilatory and ambiguous measures as the most admirable efforts of consummate prudence.

You thought I was writing The Truth? Honey, I don't even know what The Truth means.

I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.

The policy of seeking values from human beings by means of force, when practiced by an individual, is called crime. When practiced by a government, it is called statism.

I do disapprove very strongly of labelling children, especially young children, as something like 'Catholic children' or 'Protestant children' or 'Islamic children.'

And during my college, at the end of the junior year I worked in a mine.

I am sentimental,’ she said. ‘I could dissect a koala but not its baby. I like the words damozel, eglantine, elegant. I love when you kiss my elongated white hand.